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H.R. 1661119th CongressAgriculture and Food
SAFE Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) · 238 active : 39 Republicans, 199 Democrats
Latest action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
Where it standsBefore the House22 representatives score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- House: next
- Senate: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govSave America's Forgotten Equines Act of 2025 or the SAFE Act of 2025
This bill permanently prohibits the slaughter of equines (e.g., horses and mules) for human consumption. (Current law prohibits the slaughter of dogs and cats for human consumption. This bill extends the prohibition to equines.)
Specifically, this bill prohibits a person from knowingly (1) slaughtering an equine for human consumption; or (2) shipping, transporting, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donating an equine to be slaughtered for human consumption or equine parts for human consumption.
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The bill subjects a violator to a fine.
The bill applies to conduct in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States. However, it does not apply to an activity carried out by an Indian for a religious ceremony.
As background, in recent years, the appropriations acts have prohibited the Department of Agriculture (USDA) from using federal funds to inspect horses before they are slaughtered for human consumption. Therefore, there are currently no USDA-inspected horse slaughter facilities in the United States.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculture · HouseReferred to
- Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry · HouseReferred to
Subjects
No legislative subjects recorded yet. Similar-vote matching falls back to the policy area.
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 9Swing 70–100
- 62Middle 30–70
- 29Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score. The bill is not before the Senate right now; these scores show where members would stand.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
238 activeShow all 238 cosponsors
- Adam Smith (D-WA-9)
- Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13)
- Alma S. Adams (D-NC-12)
- Andrea Salinas (D-OR-6)
- André Carson (D-IN-7)
- Andy Barr (R-KY-6)
- Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS-2)
- Betty McCollum (D-MN-4)
- Bill Foster (D-IL-11)
- Brad Sherman (D-CA-32)
- Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1)
- Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1)
- Chris Pappas (D-NH-1)
- Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ-4)
- Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24)
- Daniel S. Goldman (D-NY-10)
- Danny K. Davis (D-IL-7)
- David Schweikert (R-AZ-1)
- Debbie Dingell (D-MI-6)
- Deborah K. Ross
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
